Primary health care : theory and practice / Trisha Greenhalgh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greenhalgh, Trisha.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Primary care (Medicine).

Public health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (338 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Blackwell/BMJ Books, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

General practitioners and other primary care professionals have a leading role in contemporary health care, which Trisha Greenhalgh explores in this highly praised new text. She provides perceptive and engaging insights into primary health care, focusing on: its intellectual roots its impact on the individual, the family and the community the role of the multidisciplinary team contemporary topics such as homelessness, ethnic health and electronic records. Concise summaries, highlighted boxes, extensive referencing and a dedicated section on effective learning make

Contents:

9.5 Developing healthy communities II: participatory approaches 10 Complex problems in a complex system; 10.1 Illness in the twenty-first century: chronicity, comorbidity and the need for coordination; 10.2 Coordinating care across professional and organisational boundaries; 10.3 The electronic patient record: a road map for seamless care?; 10.4 The end of an era?; 11 Quality; 11.1 Defining and measuring quality; 11.2 A rational biomedical perspective: evidence-based targets, planned change and criterion-based audit; 11.3 A narrative perspective: significant event audit

11.4 A social learning perspective: peer review groups and quality circles

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-281-31883-3

9786611318833

0-470-69177-8

0-470-69110-7

OCLC:

476171934